GeoCities sites show what normal, non-
designer, people will create if given the
tools available around the turn of the
millennium.
—Phil Gyford
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“It became necessary to destroy
the town to save it.”
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As companies like Yahoo! switch off
swathes of our online universe, little
agments of our collective history
disappear. ey might be ugly and
neglected agments of our history but
they’re still what got us where we are
today.
—Phil Gyford
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ese guys found the way to destroy the
most massive amount of history in the
shortest amount of time with absolutely no
recourse.
—Jason Scott
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archive.org
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In the startup world, you work hard and
you moe fast in order to make other
people rich.
You’re a small elite of very smart young
people who are working very hard for an
even smaller elite of mostly baby-boomer
financiers.
—Bruce Sterling
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We’re excited to announce that Wavii has
teamed up with Google!
—wavii.com
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We’re extremely excited to announce that
Summify has been acquired by Twitter!
—blog.summify.com
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At a time that represents new beginnings,
we’re thrilled to share some exciting news
with you: NabeWise has been acquired by
Airbnb!
—nabewise.com
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We are super excited to announce that
Jybe has been acquired by Yahoo!
—jy.be
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Today we are excited to share the news
that Pinterest has acquired Punchfork!
—punchfork.com
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Today, we’re excited to announce that
Google has acquired Picnik.
—googleblog.blogspot.co.uk
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So we’re excited to announce that we’ll be
making the journey to California to join
Facebook!
—blog.gowalla.com
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We’re very happy that Six Apart wants to
inest in growing the vision that we the
founders of Pownce believe so strongly in
and we’re very excited to take our vision to
all of Six Apart’s products.
—blog.pownce.com
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Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that
Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
—staff.tumblr.com
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1.Treat our data like it matters.
2.No upload without download.
3.If you close a system, support data rescue.
—contentsmagazine.com/data
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indiewebcamp.com
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e internet never forgets.
—citation needed
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longnow.org/clock
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longnow.org/clock
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02022–02–22
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longnow.org/salon
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Cool URIs don’t change.*
—Tim Berners-Lee
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You don’t need anyone’s permission
to be awesome.
—Steve Jobs